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Kevin Jones wrote:
> Both of these sound like nice solutions to the XPath to OM
> interface. What troubles me about them is that if you are
> working outside this scope you are stuck; they assume a lot
> which may not be true of some formats and at the same time
> (I assume) are closed to extension.
We are of course talking here primarily about the needs of XPath. This
is what Source is used for. It certainly isn't good for much of anything
else. XSLT comes along with XPath because they share the same data model.
Furthermore, most schema languages I can think of don't need any
information that isn't in the XPath data model. The only real exception
are DTDs (consider entities), but that support is built into the
parsers, so we can live without specifically supporting DTD validation.
If we can define an adapter that's strong enough to support XPath 1.0,
then I've we've got something very useful. Remember, we're not trying to
define an arbitrary processing model. We just need a least common
denominator, read-only model that can map between different models and
XPath engines.
> I am struck by a similarity here with the security
> standards. As I am sure you know they are large,
> comprehensive and very flexible and as a result fairly
> difficult for the casual user to deploy easily. The
> solution of subsetting common combinations of options as
> pre-packaged solutions for certain domains has made that
> whole problem much more managable during practical
> deployment.
I deliberately don't want this to be large or flexible. I want it to be
small and adaptable. It will not do everything, just what's needed for
XPath.
> The work on alternative ways of implementing XPath, such as
> the BEA XQuery paper, really hightlight that while this
> type of feature set is the commonly required one for an
> XPath implementation it is not the only set that can be
> used. This to me appears to be a fairly universal truth
> about virtually all XML processing algorithms.
Could you elaborate on this, or provide a reference? Would the BEA
implementation be unable to work with a model that provided the basic
axes we're talking about here?
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